Homemade for the Holiday: Day 11 {Gift Wrapping}

We’re back! Nat and I got to spend two days together this weekend at the Happiest Place on Earth We both traveled home yesterday and now it’s back to the real world. It was so amazingly wonderful to see her and spend time together in one of our favorite places. I’d never been to Disneyland when all the Christmas decorations are up… it is beautiful and so cozy I am in a festive mood now, and I’m excited to share some ideas with you on one of my favorite holiday topics…. gift wrapping!

There are so many ways you can put a special handmade touch to your gifts, without spending a lot of money. Here are some of my favorite ideas, gathered up from various sources and some great blogs One of my best finds was a gift wrapping series from Sarah at For The Love.

She is a professed obsessive-compulsive gift wrapper {a kindred spirit}…. here are some of her packages from last year. I love how she used lace, ribbon, ric rac, paper doilies and other misc. trimmings to plain brown kraft paper to dress it up! Also the scrabble tiles are too cute

One of the trends I’ve noticed is using plain paper (white or brown), and adding pops of color with ribbon, fabric or my FAVORITE…. tape! There are about a million ways people are using tape now… with the simplicity and elegance of a decorative tape, you don’t even need anything else:﻿

And finally, to “wrap” things up, I am taking a vow NOT to wait until the last minute and buy those store-bought sticky gift tags that are $1.99 for a sheet of 500 tags Homemade tags are so easy to make, I really have no excuse! You can print out a set of cute free tags like these lovelies from Eat Drink Chic:

*Don’t forget to come back tomorrow for our Christmas Traditions Link Party! Come and share your family’s favorite Christmas tradition with us! {If you don’t have a blog, you can link a picture from an online photo sharing account, i.e. photobucket.} Everyone who links up to the party will be entered into our Homemade for the Holidays Grand Prize giveaway. The grand prize is a $50 secret box of craft supplies from Pick Your Plum. Each link up will count as one entry, and the grand prize winner will be selected using Random.org. For some extra fun, we will each be choosing our favorite links to receive a package from us with a few of our favorite homemade gifts from our series. Tell your friends to come link up too!

You can enter all the giveaways throughout our Homemade for the Holidays Series. Winners will be selected using Random.org and will be chosen the Monday following Thanksgiving. Winners will be posted and notified via e-mail. US addresses only, please.